Nursing: Substance Use Disorders, 3rd Edition

About Course #N1761

Release Date: February 27, 2018

Expiration Date: February 28, 2021

30 Contact hours This course focuses on the epidemiology of addiction, sociocultural influences, commonly used substances, and current standards of treatment and nursing care for patients with substance use disorders. Prevention practices, patient assessment, and therapeutic modalities, including pharmacologic, psychological, group, and nontraditional therapies, are described. Twelve types of substances are described, including their biochemistry and effects on the human body. This course uses terminology for substance-related and addictive disorders defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (APA, 2013).

About the Authors

Audrey Darville, PhD, APRN, CTTS, FAANP, is an associate professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Kentucky. She has been a practicing family nurse practitioner since 1998. Currently the tobacco treatment specialist with the University of Kentucky Health Care System, she is also director of the BREATHE Tobacco Treatment Specialist online training program.

Peggy El-Mallakh, PhD, RN, PMH APRN-BC, has degrees from the Central Connecticut State University in 1982, a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Kentucky College of Nursing in 1998, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing from the University of Kentucky College of Nursing in 2005. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Kentucky College of Nursing, where she serves as the co-coordinator of the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program.

Dianna Inman, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC, PMHS, PMHNP-BC, received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from East Carolina University, a Master of Science in the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Track at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Doctor of Nursing Practice at Arizona State University. She is certified as a pediatric nurse practitioner, pediatric primary care mental health specialist, and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. Dr. Inman is actively involved in practice in developmental/behavioral pediatrics and school-based mental health.

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